The start of the race saw pole man Hamilton lead away whilst Vettel managed to get by front row starter Bottas for second place, these were followed by Raikkonen, Verstappen and Ricciardo.

However further back there was carnage as Grosjean started to spin his car avoiding his teammate Magnussen then decided to floor the throttle to spin turn his car but this had the affect of sending his car into the middle of the track in front of the pack of cars and this plus the tyre smoke made his car difficult to avoid and both Gasly and Hulkenberg crashed into him which brought out the safety car.

On the restart Hamilton quickly pulled a gap on Vettel who was under pressure from Bottas whilst Raikkonen seemed to be holding up the Red Bull cars of Verstappen and Ricciardo, the Ferrari's seemingly lacking pace.

The Ferrari's also seemed to be wearing their tyres quicker which prompted Vettel to pit first for the harder medium tyres, with these tyres there was an initial warm up issue which gave Bottas the chance of the over cut on Vettel when he also pitted for medium tyres and although it was close when Bottas reemerged on the track Vettel kept his second place.

Hamilton and Raikkonen also pitted for mediums whlst the Red Bulls stayed out on the soft tyres so at this stage it looked like the Red Bulls were one stopping whilst both the Mercedes and Ferrari cars might be 2 stopping.

Soon after his pitstop Raikkonen retired with a power unit failure whilst at the front Verstappen now lead closely followed by Hamilton with Ricciardo in third until the Red Bull cars finally decided to pit for the medium tyres.

Ocon parked his car at the side of the track with a power unit failure which triggered a VSC, this gave Vettel the chance to pit without losing as much time as a normal pitstop his tyres were never going to last until the end and then he could chase Bottas down with much fresher tyres, however a slow pitstop put him behind Verstappen who was on much fresher tyres than Bottas and although Verstappen had damaged his front win when he hit the back of Stroll's car under the VSC was unable to put him under any kind of pressure.

So Hamilton took the win from Bottas, Verstappen finished 3rd from Vettel and Ricciardo in 5th.

In third place with 144 points and receiving the "Relieved Verstappen Trophy"Remmirath

In second place with 147 points and receiving the "Battling Bottas Trophy"pokerman

In first place with 153 points and receiving the "Cruising Hamilton Trophy"Herb, paul85